PARALYMPIC AND PARA SPORTS NEWS
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Para dance sport breaks new ground in USA
Applications now open for first intro course to be held in the Americas
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Madrid 2018: Thai head coach sets bar high
Asian blind football team to make their debut at World Championships
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World champions head stellar Sao Paulo line-up
More than two hundred athletes set to compete at Grand Prix in Brazil
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Daniel Dias starts World Series title defence
Brazilian Paralympic swimming legend will be the one to watch in Sao Paulo
Germany cautious ahead of 2018 goalball Worlds
Young team to contest men’s Championships in Sweden this summer
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Championships hosts wanted by INAS
Athletics and swimming competitions in Europe, Asia and the Americas head list
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Cheongju 2018: Top South Korean shooters
Hosts could celebrate World Championship medals
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Blind football heads to the USA
Developing camp looking to identify players and coaches to be delivered
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Para athletics in numbers: Brent Lakatos
The facts and stats behind the multi-world champion wheelchair racer
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Programme leads ready to deliver OCP in East Africa
Representatives from six countries went through Organisational Capacity Programme training in Tanzania